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Spikes are making waves in the visual cortex

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Cortical and thalamic contribution to V1 neuron response properties is thought to be fixed. New work overturns this assumption, showing that the spread of corticocortical activation can be strongly modulated by stimulus strength.

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Figure 1: The spread of corticocortical activation depends on stimulus strength.

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